| MD | HB523 | Pass | Requiring a person to have an appropriate license whenever the person acts in the State as an electronic nicotine delivery systems manufacturer, retailer, vape shop vendor, wholesaler distributor, or wholesaler importer; providing for specified appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 814 |
| MD | HB631 | Pass | Prohibiting a manufacturer or wholesale distributor from engaging in price gouging in the sale of an essential off-patent or generic drug; establishing that it is not a violation of a specified provision of the Act for a wholesale distributor to incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 818 |
| MD | HB1134 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 781 |
| MD | HB702 | Veto | Authorizing a secured party to petition a circuit court for leave to immediately commence an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property if the property is vacant and abandoned under specified circumstances; requiring a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-26
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB167 | Pass | Authorizing a county or municipality to require a specified at-will supervisory employee to reside in the State, county, or municipality or within a certain distance of the State, county, or municipality as a condition of employment under specified c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 776 |
| MD | HB263 | Pass | Altering the definition of "owner" to repeal the exclusion of motor vehicle rental companies as owners of motor vehicles for the purpose of the enforcement of violations of overtaking and passing school vehicles operating alternately flashing red lig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | HB290 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority, on or before December 31 each year, to submit a specified report to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly on the procurement and implementation of the Third Generation-Electroni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 |
| MD | HB492 | Pass | Requiring that an application for a certificate of title of a motor vehicle contain specified information on a beneficiary under specified circumstances; requiring that a certificate of title issued for a motor vehicle by the Motor Vehicle Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | HB493 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to provide information on the Maryland Insurance Administration's Web site describing specified factors and a specified process relating to premium rates for policies or contracts of long-term care insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 |
| MD | HB509 | Pass | Requiring institutions of higher education that receive State funds to provide specified information to students regarding their education loans; requiring the education loan information to be provided annually with a specified notice; providing that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 658 |
| MD | HB494 | Pass | Repealing the authority of a driver to use a vehicle's fog lights instead of the vehicle's headlamps during the continuous operation of the vehicle's windshield wipers under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 749 |
| MD | HB601 | Pass | Altering the programs to be funded by the Universal Service Trust Fund; requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to certify the cost of the programs to be paid by the Universal Service Trust Fund; requiring the Public Service Commission to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 673 |
| MD | HB756 | Pass | Exempting a motorcycle dealer and a salesman employed by the dealer from restrictions on the number of annual vehicle shows in which the dealer or salesman may participate; creating an exception for motorcycle shows to the general requirement that ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | HB889 | Pass | Authorizing a properly registered tow truck to be driven in a high occupancy vehicle lane at all times regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle while responding to a call for service if the tow truck has been authorized by an appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | HB916 | Pass | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing the premium for an insured who becomes a surviving spouse based solely on the insured's change in marital status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | HB1270 | Pass | Providing that specified fees and charges permitted to be imposed on a consumer borrower under an unsecured open end credit plan, when combined with any interest charged under the plan, may not exceed an effective rate of 33% per annum simple interes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 724 |
| MD | HJ9 | Enroll | Expressing the sharp disagreement of the General Assembly of Maryland with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act; urging the U.S. Congress to promptly protect provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act that ensure all Marylanders have access to af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 5 |
| MD | HB1447 | Pass | Providing that registration plates that are required to be returned to the Motor Vehicle Administration may be returned through the mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 758 |
| MD | HB1 | Veto | Requiring employers with 15 or more employees to provide employees with earned sick and safe leave that is paid at the same wage rate as the employee normally earns; requiring employers with 14 or fewer employees to provide unpaid earned sick and saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB216 | Pass | Providing that prohibitions relating to the practice of veterinary medicine do not apply to emergency veterinary care for which a person may not be held civilly liable; providing immunity from civil liability for specified people providing emergency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 |
| MD | HB557 | Pass | Prohibiting a county or municipality from issuing a grading or building permit until the developer submits a grading and sediment control plan approved by the Department of the Environment if the property that is the subject of the permit is, or is i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| MD | HB1054 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Physicians from requiring, as a qualification to obtain a license or as a condition to renew a license, certification by a specified accrediting organization that specializes in a specific area of medicine or maintenanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | HB1063 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Healthy Soils Program to increase biological activity and carbon sequestration in the State's soils by promoting practices based on emerging soil science; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide incentives, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 373 |
| MD | HB1120 | Pass | Establishing that specified provisions of State law governing performance standards for vehicle dealers apply to vehicle manufacturers notwithstanding specified other agreements; requiring that the assignment of a dealer's market area meet specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| MD | HB1476 | Pass | Altering a specified violation relating to an employer failing to report an accidental personal injury within a specified time required under the workers' compensation law to require the violation to be a knowing violation; and increasing the penalty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 565 |
| MD | HB1427 | Pass | Establishing an apprentice hunting license that confers specified rights on a purchaser of the license; authorizing a person to obtain an apprentice hunting license on satisfactory completion of a short online or electronic course of instruction in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 403 |
| MD | HB255 | Pass | Requiring a specified health care provider to provide a victim of sexual assault with written information describing the laws and policies governing the testing, preservation, and disposal of a sexual assault evidence collection kit; requiring a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 |
| MD | HB266 | Pass | Authorizing financial aid awarded by a public senior higher education institution to be reduced only under specified circumstances; authorizing financial aid awarded by a public senior higher education institution to be reduced up to a specified amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 332 |
| MD | HB381 | Engross | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members; establishing penalties for specified violations; prohibiting a county or municipal corporati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB428 | Engross | Authorizing a court, under specified circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Smith, Zirkin, and Hough |
| MD | HB829 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Teen Advancement Program, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, recons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB890 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $188,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HJ10 | Engross | Expressing the opposition of the General Assembly to the drastic cuts to the funding of the Chesapeake Bay Program and specified other programs proposed by the President of the United States in the federal budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018; urgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB899 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop standards for the periodic psychological assessment of all law enforcement officers, if determined by the Commission to be appropriate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB924 | Pass | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from reducing or altering the boundaries of specified oyster sanctuaries until the Department develops a fisheries management plan for the scientific management of the oyster stock following completion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 27 |
| MD | HB1083 | Pass | Establishing the Family Planning Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure the continuity of family planning services in the State; requiring the Program to provide family planning services to specified individuals through spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro | Requiring the State Highway Administration, in consultation with all interested parties, to adopt timely and comprehensive regulations establishing an accessible process for citizens to report to the Administration roadkill on State highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1325 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State; repealing a provision of law that requires the Department of the Environment to adopt specified regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB1284 | Engross | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to authorize an Aquaculture Enterprise Zone and a submerged land lease located within 300 feet of the mean high watermark of the shoreline of property designated by the United states Secretary of the In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB909 | Engross | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Engross | Authorizing a homeowners association or condominium council of unit owners to file with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation a request for notice of an initial registration in the Foreclosed Property Registry; requiring the Department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Engross | Prohibiting employers that employ 15 or more employees from seeking salary history information for an employee by specified methods and screening an applicant for employment based on the applicant's salary history by taking specified actions; specify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1362 | Engross | Providing that an official of State government or a local government is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state that will be used for specified purposes; stating it is th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB656 | Engross | Providing a specified exception to an exemption from specified taxes, user charges, and utility fees relating to stormwater for property owned by a county; exempting a public college or university or a local school system from being charged a stormwa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Intro | Making the failure to wear a seat belt in a rear passenger seat of a motor vehicle a primary offense rather than a secondary offense; requiring a specified motor vehicle passenger in a front seat position that is not adjacent to a door of a motor veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
Recommitted to Environment and Transportation (Delegate Beidle) |
| MD | HB1486 | Intro | Requiring the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board, on or before January 1, 2019, to require a candidate for a certificate to teach specified students to pass a test of research-based reading instruction; requiring the Board and the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-18
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1516 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, on or before December 31, 2017, to research and evaluate public and private health record and payment clearing houses, develop standards, determine specified information, and report its recommendations a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB466 | Intro | Altering the prevailing wage law to apply to specified structures or works constructed with specified bond proceeds in tax increment financing development districts established under State or local law; and applying the Act only to a contract execute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1076 | Intro | Requiring a specified law enforcement agency to submit a sexual assault evidence collection kit to a forensic laboratory for analysis within 30 days of receipt, to notify the victim when the kit was sent and of the results of the analysis, to utilize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1351 | Intro | Allowing county boards of education to authorize a student to satisfy a State or county middle or high school foreign language requirement by completing a course in computer programming language; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
